Patents by Inventor Haruhiko Higuchi
Haruhiko Higuchi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230080978Abstract: The preset invention aims to provide a method of presenting a learning condition which enables an improvement in the accuracy of image analysis. An information processing apparatus for machine learning is provided which includes a true/false information generating unit which generates true/false information of an image analysis result, a reliability determining unit which determines reliability related to analysis in image analysis processing, and a learning condition output unit which presents a learning condition, based on the true/false information and the reliability.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Haruhiko HIGUCHI, Mitsuji IKEDA
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Publication number: 20220132071Abstract: A technology capable of suitably correcting a geometric distortion caused by a shape of a curved surface of a screen or the like and obtaining a suitable image easily viewable for a user is provided. A projector is an image display apparatus configured to project an image onto a screen and includes a projection lens arranged at a first position and a camera arranged at a second position. When the screen has a curved surface, a camera image obtained by capturing a first image projected on the screen by the camera is acquired, and a geometric transformation for correcting a geometric distortion caused by the curved surface seen from a first virtual viewpoint position (virtual viewpoint) is performed for an image to be displayed based on information of the camera image, the first position, and the second position, and a post-transformation image is projected onto the screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Kazuhiko TANAKA, Mitsuo NAKAJIMA, Haruhiko HIGUCHI
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Patent number: 11178369Abstract: Provided are: a video-image transformation unit performing video-image transformation to a video image inputted from outside; a video-image projection unit projecting, onto a video-image projection surface, a video image video-image-transformed by the video-image transformation unit; an image sensor acquiring a projected range of the projected video image projected by the video-image projection unit and an image obtained by photographing a corrected object; and a processor performing a calculation processing using the image photographed by the image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2016Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Tanaka, Mitsuo Nakajima, Haruhiko Higuchi
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Patent number: 11146766Abstract: An object is to provide a technology for correcting color of a projected video more suitably. In order to solve the above-described object, a configuration includes a video projector configured to display a plurality of colors in time division and project a video to be displayed, and a color corrector configured to perform color correction on a projected video from the video projector. In the configuration, the projected video projected by the video projector is imaged by an internal imaging apparatus or an external imaging apparatus connected by wire or wireless connection, and the color corrector performs the color correction on the basis of a video corresponding to time division one period of the projected video detected from the imaged image or color information of the video corresponding to N times period of time division one period.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Haruhiko Higuchi, Kazuhiko Tanaka, Mitsuo Nakajima
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Patent number: 11134204Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image with a first spatial resolution; a distance acquisition unit that acquires a distance image which is depth information with a second spatial resolution that is a resolution lower than the first spatial resolution; an image recognition unit that extracts an area including a three-dimensional object area corresponding to a three-dimensional object in the captured image; a distance calculation unit that calculates depth information of the three-dimensional object area on the basis of the distance image; a correction unit that corrects coordinate transformation information for coordinate transformation of the captured image on the basis of the depth information of the three-dimensional object area calculated by the distance calculation unit; and a viewpoint transformed image generation unit that generates a viewpoint transformed image obtained by the coordinate transformation of the captured image by using the coordinType: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Haruhiko Higuchi, Kazuhiko Tanaka
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Publication number: 20210160437Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image with a first spatial resolution; a distance acquisition unit that acquires a distance image which is depth information with a second spatial resolution that is a resolution lower than the first spatial resolution; an image recognition unit that extracts an area including a three-dimensional object area corresponding to a three-dimensional object in the captured image; a distance calculation unit that calculates depth information of the three-dimensional object area on the basis of the distance image; a correction unit that corrects coordinate transformation information for coordinate transformation of the captured image on the basis of the depth information of the three-dimensional object area calculated by the distance calculation unit; and a viewpoint transformed image generation unit that generates a viewpoint transformed image obtained by the coordinate transformation of the captured image by using the coordinType: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2018Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Haruhiko HIGUCHI, Kazuhiko TANAKA
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Publication number: 20200413014Abstract: Provided are: a video-image transformation unit performing video-image transformation to a video image inputted from outside; a video-image projection unit projecting, onto a video-image projection surface, a video image video-image-transformed by the video-image transformation unit; an image sensor acquiring a projected range of the projected video image projected by the video-image projection unit and an image obtained by photographing a corrected object; and a processor performing a calculation processing using the image photographed by the image sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2016Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicants: MAXELL, LTD., MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko TANAKA, Mitsuo NAKAJIMA, Haruhiko HIGUCHI
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Patent number: 10659747Abstract: An object is to obtain a visibility-improved video while more favorably maintaining a color rendering property in a video display device. To achieve the object, a video input unit, a video correcting unit that performs video correction on a video input by the video input unit, and a video display unit that displays the video corrected by the video correcting unit are included, and the video correcting unit is configured to perform local luminance correction on the video input by the video input unit, acquire a correction intensity for each part of the local luminance correction, and perform local saturation correction based on the correction intensity.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Tanaka, Mitsuo Nakajima, Nobuhiro Fukuda, Haruhiko Higuchi
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Publication number: 20200137370Abstract: An object is to obtain a visibility-improved video while more favorably maintaining a color rendering property in a video display device. To achieve the object, a video input unit, a video correcting unit that performs video correction on a video input by the video input unit, and a video display unit that displays the video corrected by the video correcting unit are included, and the video correcting unit is configured to perform local luminance correction on the video input by the video input unit, acquire a correction intensity for each part of the local luminance correction, and perform local saturation correction based on the correction intensity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko TANAKA, Mitsuo NAKAJIMA, Nobuhiro FUKUDA, Haruhiko HIGUCHI
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Patent number: 10582171Abstract: A display system includes: a video display apparatus; and a mobile terminal that communicate with each other. The video display apparatus includes: a measurement pattern generator that generates a plurality of measurement patterns; a projection unit that projects the measurement patterns; a first transceiver that communicates with the mobile terminal to receive information regarding distortion correction of video; and a distortion corrector that corrects the distortion. The mobile terminal includes: a camera unit that photographs the projected measurement patterns; a controller that generates the distortion correction information based on the photographed measurement patterns; and a second transceiver that communicates with the first transceiver to transmit the distortion correction information to the video display apparatus. The measurement pattern generator adds a common pattern to each measurement pattern, which indicates a reference position of each of the measurement patterns.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Mitsuo Nakajima, Kazuhiko Tanaka, Haruhiko Higuchi
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Publication number: 20200007837Abstract: A display system includes: a video display apparatus; and a mobile terminal that communicate with each other. The video display apparatus includes: a measurement pattern generator that generates a plurality of measurement patterns; a projection unit that projects the measurement patterns; a first transceiver that communicates with the mobile terminal to receive information regarding distortion correction of video; and a distortion corrector that corrects the distortion. The mobile terminal includes: a camera unit that photographs the projected measurement patterns; a controller that generates the distortion correction information based on the photographed measurement patterns; and a second transceiver that communicates with the first transceiver to transmit the distortion correction information to the video display apparatus. The measurement pattern generator adds a common pattern to each measurement pattern, which indicates a reference position of each of the measurement patterns.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Mitsuo NAKAJIMA, Kazuhiko TANAKA, Haruhiko HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20190394434Abstract: An object is to provide a technology for correcting color of a projected video more suitably. In order to solve the above-described object, a configuration includes a video projector configured to display a plurality of colors in time division and project a video to be displayed, and a color corrector configured to perform color correction on a projected video from the video projector. In the configuration, the projected video projected by the video projector is imaged by an internal imaging apparatus or an external imaging apparatus connected by wire or wireless connection, and the color corrector performs the color correction on the basis of a video corresponding to time division one period of the projected video detected from the imaged image or color information of the video corresponding to N times period of time division one period.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Haruhiko HIGUCHI, Kazuhiko TANAKA, Mitsuo NAKAJIMA
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Patent number: 10449900Abstract: A video display system performs a video conversion process on a video of a camera mounted on a vehicle and displays a resulting video, and includes a plurality of cameras, a detecting unit that detects an object of interest around the vehicle based on information or the like acquired through the plurality of cameras, other sensors, or a network, a transforming/synthesizing unit that transforms and synthesizes the videos photographed by the plurality of cameras using a shape of a virtual projection plane, a virtual viewpoint, and a synthesis method which are decided according to position information of the object of interest detected by the detecting unit, and a display unit that displays the video that is transformed and synthesized by the transforming/synthesizing unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: CLARION, CO., LTD.Inventors: Haruhiko Higuchi, Kenta Takanohashi, Mitsuo Nakajima, Hidenori Sakaniwa, Yoshitaka Uchida, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Katsuo Onozaki, Takayuki Shioya
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Patent number: 10455204Abstract: A display system includes: a video display apparatus; and a mobile terminal that communicate with each other. The video display apparatus includes: a measurement pattern generator that generates a plurality of measurement patterns; a projection unit that projects the measurement patterns; a first transceiver that communicates with the mobile terminal to receive information regarding distortion correction of video; and a distortion corrector that corrects the distortion. The mobile terminal includes: a camera unit that photographs the projected measurement patterns; a controller that generates the distortion correction information based on the photographed measurement patterns; and a second transceiver that communicates with the first transceiver to transmit the distortion correction information to the video display apparatus. The measurement pattern generator adds a common pattern to each measurement pattern, which indicates a reference position of each of the measurement patterns.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Mitsuo Nakajima, Kazuhiko Tanaka, Haruhiko Higuchi
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Patent number: 10354358Abstract: An image generation device performs coordinate transformation, based on a coordinate transformation table, to a two-dimensional first image having a span in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction and acquired by overlooking and imaging an object from a first viewpoint at a first depression angle, and generates and outputs a second image which was obtained by overlooking the object from a second viewpoint which is different from the first viewpoint at a second depression angle which is different from the first depression angle. The coordinate transformation table is a table for transforming coordinates of a plurality of first selected pixels selected from a plurality of first pixels constituting the first image into coordinates of second selected pixels corresponding to a plurality of second pixels constituting the second image.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Haruhiko Higuchi, Mitsuo Nakajima, Katsuo Onozaki, Yoshitaka Uchida, Takayuki Shioya
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Publication number: 20190110033Abstract: A display system includes: a video display apparatus; and a mobile terminal that communicate with each other. The video display apparatus includes: a measurement pattern generator that generates a plurality of measurement patterns; a projection unit that projects the measurement patterns; a first transceiver that communicates with the mobile terminal to receive information regarding distortion correction of video; and a distortion corrector that corrects the distortion. The mobile terminal includes: a camera unit that photographs the projected measurement patterns; a controller that generates the distortion correction information based on the photographed measurement patterns; and a second transceiver that communicates with the first transceiver to transmit the distortion correction information to the video display apparatus. The measurement pattern generator adds a common pattern to each measurement pattern, which indicates a reference position of each of the measurement patterns.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2016Publication date: April 11, 2019Applicant: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Mitsuo NAKAJIMA, Kazuhiko TANAKA, Haruhiko HIGUCHI
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Patent number: 10244216Abstract: When projecting a video in conformity to the shape of a three-dimensional object using a projector, a pattern such as a grid is projected and the projected pattern is photographed, and then the position or shape of a projection object is calculated, whereby making it possible to apply appropriate geometric transformation to a projected video. However, when a grid is projected in superposition while video content is being displayed, the grid is visible to a viewer, and that the position or shape of a projection video cannot be calculated while a video content is being displayed. The present invention uses the freedom of color representation and the color redundancy of a color wheel, buries an invisible pattern not visible to human eyes in a video, and photographs the video in synchronism with the rotation of the color wheel, thereby making it possible to discriminate the buried invisible pattern.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Tanaka, Mitsuo Nakajima, Haruhiko Higuchi
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Publication number: 20180309968Abstract: When projecting a video in conformity to the shape of a three-dimensional object using a projector, a pattern such as a grid is projected and the projected pattern is photographed, and then the position or shape of a projection object is calculated, whereby making it possible to apply appropriate geometric transformation to a projected video. However, when a grid is projected in superposition while video content is being displayed, the grid is visible to a viewer, and that the position or shape of a projection video cannot be calculated while a video content is being displayed. The present invention uses the freedom of color representation and the color redundancy of a color wheel, buries an invisible pattern not visible to human eyes in a video, and photographs the video in synchronism with the rotation of the color wheel, thereby making it possible to discriminate the buried invisible pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2015Publication date: October 25, 2018Applicant: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko TANAKA, Mitsuo NAKAJIMA, Haruhiko HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20170358056Abstract: An image generation device performs coordinate transformation, based on a coordinate transformation table, to a two-dimensional first image having a span in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction and acquired by overlooking and imaging an object from a first viewpoint at a first depression angle, and generates and outputs a second image which was obtained by overlooking the object from a second viewpoint which is different from the first viewpoint at a second depression angle which is different from the first depression angle. The coordinate transformation table is a table for transforming coordinates of a plurality of first selected pixels selected from a plurality of first pixels constituting the first image into coordinates of second selected pixels corresponding to a plurality of second pixels constituting the second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2015Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Haruhiko HIGUCHI, Mitsuo NAKAJIMA, Katsuo ONOZAKI, Yoshitaka UCHIDA, Takayuki SHIOYA
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Publication number: 20170096106Abstract: A video display system performs a video conversion process on a video of a camera mounted on a vehicle and displays a resulting video, and includes a plurality of cameras, a detecting unit that detects an object of interest around the vehicle based on information or the like acquired through the plurality of cameras, other sensors, or a network, a transforming/synthesizing unit that transforms and synthesizes the videos photographed by the plurality of cameras using a shape of a virtual projection plane, a virtual viewpoint, and a synthesis method which are decided according to position information of the object of interest detected by the detecting unit, and a display unit that displays the video that is transformed and synthesized by the transforming/synthesizing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Haruhiko HIGUCHI, Kenta TAKANOHASHI, Mitsuo NAKAJIMA, Hidenori SAKANIWA, Yoshitaka UCHIDA, Hiroyuki NAKAMURA, Katsuo ONOZAKI, Takayuki SHIOYA